An 81-year-old woman may be jailed in Florida for repeatedly feeding a bear. Tragically, the bear she was feeding was euthanized because authorities consider a fed bear dangerous.

That made me think: If humans feeding bears creates bears who become aggressive when not fed, then hunters’ bait stations in New Jersey must also create problem bears.

Those bears who visit bait stations and survive the hunt can become nuisances as a result of their experience. Hunters certainly don’t clean up the bait mess before racing to the weigh station.

Later that day, the next day and days and days later, bears (and deer) visit and feast on human-provided food. The bears are being acclimated to being fed. And the government encourages the practice.

It is wrong. If I am not allowed to feed bears in my back yard, then hunters cannot be allowed to feed bears in the woods in November and December. When does a New Jersey citizen illegally feeding bears for pleasure become a legal hunter, baiting bears for a hunt?